Coronavirus is slowly turning Bay Area into a ghost town

[Anta Assamey]

Just now, trent said:

So stocks tho playing until 👍🏼

Ee Interview endi uncle naaku .. .

[quickgun_murugun]

4 hours ago, Spartan said:

On a regular Tuesday morning in the Bay Area, everything is busy – from bridges and traffic to bustling BART trains and lack of parking at stations.

But none of that was the case this morning as more and more people are apparently staying home amid the growing coronavirus outbreak.

A photo sent to KRON4 by viewer Gina Rodriguez shows an empty BART parking lot in Concord at 8 a.m.; not normal by any standards.

Photo: Gina Rodriguez

The video above shows the Embarcadero BART station around the same time, with only a handful of people seen milling around the station compared to the hundreds that usually flock the area on a regular morning.

BART officials tell KRON4 last week there was an 8% drop in ridership.

A decrease in the population is evident in part to some big companies in the area telling their employees to work from home, such as Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, and Twitter.

There are 88 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Bay Area.

Several schools around the Bay Area have also closed or modified their class schedules amid the outbreak.

Even traffic is seeming lighter, too.

KRON4’s Robin Winston reported Tuesday seeing fewer commuters on the Bay Bridge on what would normally be a very busy morning.

Im also seeing fewer commutes on Bay Area bridge this morning. Bridges have already thinned out when normally on a Tuesday at this time, they are pack. So yup they are working from home and so many schools are closed or offering online classes.

— Robin Winston (@RobinWinstonTV) March 10, 2020

Nice 

[hunkyfunky]

Google asks all 100,000 employees to work from home

[trent]

1 hour ago, Anta Assamey said:

Ee Interview endi uncle naaku .. .

GK uncle

[Hyper]

eda man  full rush undhi traffic kuda

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5 hours ago, Spartan said:

On a regular Tuesday morning in the Bay Area, everything is busy – from bridges and traffic to bustling BART trains and lack of parking at stations.

But none of that was the case this morning as more and more people are apparently staying home amid the growing coronavirus outbreak.

A photo sent to KRON4 by viewer Gina Rodriguez shows an empty BART parking lot in Concord at 8 a.m.; not normal by any standards.

Photo: Gina Rodriguez

The video above shows the Embarcadero BART station around the same time, with only a handful of people seen milling around the station compared to the hundreds that usually flock the area on a regular morning.

BART officials tell KRON4 last week there was an 8% drop in ridership.

A decrease in the population is evident in part to some big companies in the area telling their employees to work from home, such as Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon, Microsoft, and Twitter.

There are 88 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Bay Area.

Several schools around the Bay Area have also closed or modified their class schedules amid the outbreak.

Even traffic is seeming lighter, too.

KRON4’s Robin Winston reported Tuesday seeing fewer commuters on the Bay Bridge on what would normally be a very busy morning.

Im also seeing fewer commutes on Bay Area bridge this morning. Bridges have already thinned out when normally on a Tuesday at this time, they are pack. So yup they are working from home and so many schools are closed or offering online classes.

— Robin Winston (@RobinWinstonTV) March 10, 2020

Sad.. 

[Guest]

Bokkale..bayatki vachi sudandi konchem.. as it is

[Amrita]

5 hours ago, karthikn said:

Bongu ghost towns, Seattle already ghost town antunnaru eeda em ledhu. WFH gurinchi em matladatle maa client  evarikanna vachi sick avuthe, vaadu sick ayye lopu andariki antisthadu ga

Our client is getting ready for coronavirus out break . Andarini laptops tesukelli anni applications , databases ( including prod) , bitbucket , servers , confluence  annitiki connect ayyi google doc they shared for  list of things update cheyamannaru. Every single employee should do that today . One employee test ayina they will declare emergency and will give wfh for a month anta . Honestly I want wfh but ila anukokudadu at cost of someone’s life . 

[Amrita]

59 minutes ago, Guest said:

Bokkale..bayatki vachi sudandi konchem.. as it is

WFH iste epudaina ah Desk ni assemble cheyi 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Amrita said:

WFH iste epudaina ah Desk ni assemble cheyi 

moving undi next month..as it is garage lo unna box ni move cheyale..

[Amrita]

7 minutes ago, Guest said:

moving undi next month..as it is garage lo unna box ni move cheyale..

[karthikn]

36 minutes ago, Amrita said:

Our client is getting ready for coronavirus out break . Andarini laptops tesukelli anni applications , databases ( including prod) , bitbucket , servers , confluence  annitiki connect ayyi google doc they shared for  list of things update cheyamannaru. Every single employee should do that today . One employee test ayina they will declare emergency and will give wfh for a month anta . Honestly I want wfh but ila anukokudadu at cost of someone’s life . 

bokka padudhi for clients.. employees sick avuthe or okadiki corona vachi oorantha antisthe

[Amrita]

1 minute ago, karthikn said:

bokka padudhi for clients.. employees sick avuthe or okadiki corona vachi oorantha antisthe

Yeah . 

[Catabolite]

3 hours ago, hunkyfunky said:

Google asks all 100,000 employees to work from home

Hungry, some job

[ARYA]

6 hours ago, Chakram12 said:

ok tengeyi

good the close ba